Support/Comments for WeatherX

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Brief Description:
Allows the easy output of XML feeds from Weather.com and Wunderground.com.

Jesse,
Just out of curiosity, how come the feed from weather.com is cached in a file and not the one from wunderground? Is this something you are planning to add, I may take a shot at it if you don’t have time.

Great snippet though, works great.

Kyle

I think I didn’t cache it because the feeds were public and didn’t require a key (that could be shut down). By not placing it in the cache, you get up to the second weather, but for larger sites and as a good netizen, it is probably a good idea to cache both. I haven’t taken a look at this in quite awhile, but if there is a request for caching it, it shouldn’t be too hard :-D

I haven’t tested this, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work, if you want to give it a whirl, let me know if it works :-D

Your snippet is very nice but I think it only works for the US, by inserting US cities and/or zip code.
I’m in Mexico, any idea how should I modify the snippet to make it work for a foreign city?? Both
wunderground and weather have available weather for Mexican cities, the problem that I find is that
there is no way to call the feed cause both of them ask for the US zipcode, I have tried to input
the "global station" id in wundeground at no avail and with weather.com I need the LocID which as
stated in their guide uses a US city or a zipcode...

any help will be greatly appreciated...

Carlos

Please let me know the URL of the feed for the Mexican city you want, for both Wunderground and/or Weather.com (You might want to send me the Weather.com one in PM as it contains your license and partner IDs).

Also, you might want to take a look at FeedX as it can handle weather feeds quite nicely and has two sample templates for Weather.com and and Wunderground.

Whichever route you choose, hopefully we can get it up and running for you.

Thanks for helping me jesster, the city is Cuernavaca, south of Mexico city.

the wunderground RSS is:
http://www.wunderground.com/auto/rss_full/global/stations/76726.xml?units=both

76726 is the global station number for Cuernavaca airport (I think , or wherever the station is).

for weather.com:
http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/MXMS0064?cc=*&prod=xoap&par=[partner_id]&key=[license_key]

again, MXMS0064 is MX=Mexico, MS=State or Morelos (where Cuernavaca is), 0064=must be the city station.

I’ll send you my partner_id and license_key via PM...

Thanks again for the help...

I haven’t got your PM, but for Wunderground you should be able to just make the change to $wxWunderURL to get it to work.

Change:



To:



That should do the trick :-D

Nope, I tried that before, I also thought that that was it...
nothing comes up when the URL is changed to global/stations...
I think it could be that the XML is different and your program can´t parse
it...
I´ll see that tomorrow...
Thanks anyway...

with weather.com, I also tried using MXMS0064 as the zipcode, so that when you
assemble the url comes exactly as the one used in the web site for CUernavaca,
but nothing changes in weather.txt.....?????

Does it work at all when you use a United State’s based zip code?

Also, please look at FeedX. Anything you could have done in WeatherX, should be able to be accomplished in that snippet, and it is probably more efficient.

Jesse